Functional test engineer job description

The Company

Astra's mission is to improve life on Earth from space by creating a healthier and more connected planet. Astra delivered its first commercial payload into Earth orbit in 2021, making it the fastest company in history to reach this milestone, just five years after being founded in 2016. By achieving monthly, weekly, then daily launches, we'll create the infrastructure services our customers need in space to build a healthier and more connected planet. If you're excited by a sense of possibility, the chance to innovate, and make a difference here on Earth, we think you should work here too.

The Team

The Instrumentation & Controls department focuses on the design, fabrication and deployment of automated test and control systems across the programs and products that Astra builds. We set the standard for the hardware and software that is used to qualify, test and control the products that launch our rockets. Our team touches all aspects of the launch system from the development of custom test equipment used during acceptance and qualification testing of our launch vehicle electronics to the design of custom hardware-in-the-loop systems to simulate a full-fidelity flight of our rocket.

As a Functional Test Engineer working on the Avionics Hardware team, your biggest impact will be supporting our hardware and test capabilities for our custom-designed rocket avionics products. To achieve this, you support the design, development, and execution of prototype and equipment builds for avionics hardware. Your responsibilities will span PCBA testing and defect detection, sensor/transducer verification, and full system-level functional testing.

Duties include:

* Design and fabrication of equipment used in the validation and end-of-line (EOL) testing of our rocket avionics hardware.
* Development of test software used to perform functional testing of custom avionics hardware (Python preferred).
* Design of custom tooling, equipment and test fixtures for board-level and sub-assembly level testing of electronics (Siemens NX preferred).
* Design of custom fixtures and harnesses to test our rocket and ground system harnessing (RapidHarness preferred).
* Creation of electrical schematics for custom equipment (AutoCAD Electrical preferred).
* Conduct functional and reliability testing of hardware Processing data logs, identifying trends and anomalies, presenting data and forming conclusions. Identifying issues and appropriate next steps.

Qualifications

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in an engineering discipline and 2+ years' experience as a test engineer.
* Experience with industrial schematic capture tools.
* Experience designing test fixtures for medium- or high-volume manufacturing environments.
* Hands-on experience with complex electrical or electro-mechanical systems.
* Familiar with test equipment and measurement techniques used to verify and validate product requirements (extensive understanding of instrumentation, interfaces and sensors including DMMs, DAQs, power supplies, oscilloscopes, DIO, GPIB, USB, RS- 422, VISA, UDP, SPI, switch technologies and topologies, accelerometers, RTDs, thermocouples, etc.).

Desired Multipliers

* Experience with PCBA design (Altium preferred).
* Experience working with PLCs (AB, Siemens, Beckhoff).
* Experience designing equipment for medium/high-volume production environments.

Salary, Benefits and Culture

* We are competitive in compensation and offer equity as part of the package. We have really good benefits that include health, vision, dental, 401K in comparison to other startups. We offer lunch every day and there's plenty of snacks and drinks to get you through the day. We celebrate our diverse teams' accomplishments with quarterly off-sites and frequent happy hours.

ITAR Requirements: This position requires compliance with U.S. Government space technology trade restrictions, specifically the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and additional regulations governing satellite, launch vehicle, missile, and other related technologies. All jobs restricted by these regulations will be contingent upon the applicant's status as a documented U.S. Person or their ability to receive a trade license from the cognizant government agency; in addition to any required company background checks and in compliance with applicable U.S. and California laws. Similarly, positions requiring the ability to work on government contracts or a security clearance are also contingent upon the applicants ability to receive the appropriate clearance and be allowed to work on U.S. government contracts.

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Astra, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

San Francisco Applicants: Astra will consider applicants with arrest and conviction records (criminal histories) in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

_What Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health_

Software Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting applications, systems and IT products required to achieve the company's business objectives\.

+ Demonstrates knowledge of software development techniques and fluency in software languages and application programming interfaces\.
+ Demonstrates general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies\.
+ Plans and executes system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts\.
+ Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems\.
+ Demonstrates problem solving ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages\.
+ Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance\.
+ Demonstrates knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents\. Estimates to high level business requirements and provide options

_Responsibilities_

+ Contribute to business process design, analyze requirements, and arrive at functional solution \(Blueprint\) for to be business process\.
+ Drive conversations with Business teams to help understand system issues and provide solutions to plug process gaps\.
+ Design, configure, develop, and implement SAP solutions\.
+ Design functional specifications for reports, interfaces, enhancements, workflow, and forms\.
+ Utilize SAP knowledge and expertise to identify issues and process improvement opportunities\.
+ Perform unit, system, integration, and regression testing through the project life cycle\.
+ Analyze critical issues and defects and provide SAP solutions accordingly\.
+ Co\-ordinate with teams supporting various technologies to deliver a complete solution to the business stakeholders\.
+ Co\-ordinate with team members across geographies and time zones\.

_Qualifications and Critical Skills :_

+ Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience preferred\.
+ 6\+ years in SAP and experience with functional processes preferred\.
+ SAP certification in OTC is preferred\.
+ Hands on, expert level knowledge in core OTC components including but not limited to,

- Configuration and implementation of Sales documents \- Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order \(standard order, rush order, service order, returns\), Deliveries \(outbound & inbound\), Billing, Invoicing, Credit memo, Debit memo, Intercompany process along with working knowledge of SAP LE process, covering the complete range of functionalities like Customer, Vendor and Material Master data\.
- Experience in integration between SAP ECC and distributed WMS systems is plus\.
- Experience in integration between SAP ECC and APO GATP is a plus
+ Knowledge on Vistex Chargebacks , Billbacks , Agreements and Memberships, understanding of how IP documents are setup and integration with SD documents and Finance is highly desired\.
+ Configuration experience with Condition tables, Condition types, Access sequences, Pricing procedures, Condition records and Pricing routines\.
+ Knowledge of SD\-FI integration is a plus
+ Experience with working on various integrations to SAP OTC such as IDocs, EDI\(850, 855, 810 ,832, 844, 856,867,940, 945\)\., ALE and RFC/API\.
+ Knowledge in ABAP debugging is a plus

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Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer\. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status\.